Manipur, March 29 -- Social distancing has never been discussed before as we do today. Queues in front of shops are arranged in such a manner that there is a space of at least one meter between one another. We are desperate for relief from this lockdown but what we see is the gradual increase of COVID-19 cases in India and all around the world. Given this situation, one may wonder if the lockdown strategy is really helping. In fact, the nationwide lockdown has attributed to the slow rate of the rise of Covid-19 in India.

Yet, some concerned people have voiced that the COVID-19 cases in India are low when compared to other nations only because India did not carry out mass testing of the public unlike in some European nations. In Italy and...